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Since the millennium, the labor market participation of women and mothers is increasing across European countries …
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeiterneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensusoder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihrenErgebnissen aufweisen...
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less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are …
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Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment...
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Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This … decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large … representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
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-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …
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representative sample of female workers. While part-time working women expect significant hourly wage gains from switching to full …. Perceived pecuniary losses from part-time work are most pronounced among full-time working mothers and women in managerial jobs …
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This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
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Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … of housework but in contrast to the US where women increase their contribution to non-market work when they actually have …
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